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You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.

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All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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They all want you to make a movie for under a million dollars, which I don't want to. I don't want to be a faux radical film-maker at 70. I did that. I don't need to do it again.

John Waters

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I also taught myself how to blow glass using a propane torch from the hardware store and managed to make some elementary chemistry plumbing such as tees and small glass bulbs.

Robert B. Laughlin

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I was possibly shy. I don't know why some people are shy and some aren't. Some people blush very easily.

Roger Moore

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'Rage' is the word that most often attaches itself to the Tea Party movement, and it's true that, from the outside looking in, their public demonstrations appear to be more enraged than any political events in America since the race riots and anti-war protests of the 1960s.

Jonathan Raban

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Why do people play the lottery, or why do people gamble, period? You know, it's with the hope of winning something more.

Derek Kilmer

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While learning to code may have once been an arduous or expensive process, the college dropouts who developed Codecademy have democratized coding as surely as Gutenberg democratized text. Anyone can go to Codecademy and start learning and creating code through their simple, fun, interactive window, for free.

Douglas Rushkoff

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I think too many comic book covers are way too busy, crammed with far too much information, both visual and verbal, that just becomes a dull noise.

Chip Kidd

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I'm an actor, in particular, that likes to have a mask or something that can help me distance myself from the character. Like the moustache or an accent.

Corey Stoll

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So I was hugely thrilled that my first scene ever on camera was with Hal Holbrook.

Anthony Edwards

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In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

William Lyon Phelps

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Feminism in some ways has become quite dormant.

Tina Brown

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